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Job Description
Provide therapy to patients with visual impairments to improve their functioning in daily life activities. May train patients in activities such as computer use, communication skills, or home management skills.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT)
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- Orientation and Mobility Instructor
- Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Mobility Specialist
- Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Certified Low Vision Therapist
- Vision Therapist
- Vision Specialist
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind”
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Design instructional programs to improve communication using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book machines, digital books, and optical character readers (OCRs).
- Refer clients to services, such as eye care, health care, rehabilitation, and counseling, to enhance visual and life functioning or when condition exceeds scope of practice.
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
Related Technology & Tools
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Stacking rings
- Writing guides
- Dome magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
- Long canes
- Penlights
- Copyholders
- Slicing guides
- Color discs
- Finger puppets
- Stand magnifiers
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Flashlights
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Amsler grids
- Reading stands
- Illuminated cabinets
- Braille label makers
- Pointers
- Anti-glare visors
- Braille writers
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Flashlight color filters
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Medical measuring tapes
- Braille laptop computers
- Adjustable task lamps
- Stop watches
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Signature guides
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Eye occluders
- Check writing guides
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Tactile maps
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Piano glasses
- Large text keyboards
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Night scopes
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Lea grating paddles
- Monoculars
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Needle threaders
- Near vision acuity charts
- Envelope addressing guides
- Print readers
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Rulers
- Braille embossers
- Handheld magnifiers
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- HOTV charts
- Plastic eye models
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Bar magnifiers
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Microsoft Access
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Dolphin Lunar
- Internet browser software
- Microsoft Word
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier